MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell pulled no punches whatsoever with his blistering review of President Donald Trump’s speech to America’s top military members on Tuesday.
“The United States of America is facing an emergency tonight,” O’Donnell declared. But it’s not the government shutdown that has now begun, he said.
Instead, the anchor argued, it’s that Trump’s speech “proved that he is mentally incapable and emotionally incapable of fulfilling his constitutional duties as president of the United States.”
“In other words, there is no president of the United States as we knew it,” said O’Donnell. “There is no functioning intelligence, no functioning judgment mechanism within the mind of the current holder of the title, president of the United States, and that person is also the holder of the nuclear codes that could destroy the planet in seconds … and the commander in chief of the most powerful military in the history of the world.”
Trump’s speech was a “stream of consciousness madness, complete with hallucinations and an endless stream of pathological lies,” he continued, ripping Trump as “a clown” in what appeared “to be a homemade brew of orange makeup slathered all over his face because he thinks it makes him look better.”
